The telephone phenomenon plus the films lost to history

The arrival of the telephone changed the world. In the USA,  the first country to rapidly commercialise everyday phone usage, one company dominated that rollout: Bell. Alexander Graham Bell, while not the sole inventor of the phone, led its development, and secured the patent. Plus, writer Simon Miraudo, unearths cinema’s lost history, from films destroyed in fires to entire works erased from existence.

Guests:

James Gleick, science writer and historian, Author of 'The Telephone: A New History' (Picador)

Simon Miraudo, writer and film critic.

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